Dosing Kids with Drugs to Shut Them Up is Child Abuse, Study Says

My child I was told by a teacher that he had problems focusung in school,They actualy had my husband and I meet with a social worker a nurse the teacher and the priciple to discuss our options.They had wanted to hold him back because he was having problems and we refused to put him on drugs,they told us that even though my pediatrician said he was not hyper-active they could find a doctor to prescribe the drugs.Well they didn't realize my husband is in law and was not itimidated by them,by the end of the meeting they were falling over themselves trying to get my child extra help.We had him temoved from that class and sent a letter to the board of education.All they want is mindless well behaved kids that don't give them an issue or problems .He excells in math and his other classes now and we feel his issue was that he was not being challenged enough.

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I learned at a early age to behave myself or face getting a swat on the butt. The only time us kids were medicated was when we were sick. out of control children are the product of parents not paying attention or too busy. If you don't have the time or patience for children, don't have any, and yes I have children, didn't work outside the home because we lived within our means.

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the problem is that you cant stop it unless you remove every drug from the stores and go to the doctors everytime the child really needs them.

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Of course it's abuse! But no one cares. I reported my step-son's mother for abusing and neglecting him and over-medicating him and provided documentation AND a list of eye witnesses. CPS only spoke with the mother, who is a child psychologist, of all things, and took her word for it. The boy is now 16 and has tried to kill himself numerous times because of the treatment he receives at his mother's hands and there is nothing we can do about it because she is so "respectable" that they automatically believe her. The only time she came close to getting caught was when he nearly drowned three times as a toddler and the fire department told her they were going to investigate her. So she moved two cities away and they dropped it.

I see other parents use drugs to control their children as well and their doctors condone it! They just say their child has ADHD and is uncontrollable. Parents today are just too lazy and a bit crazy.

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That's funny that they say not to give your kids anything under the age of two. I took my 3 month old in with a fever and the dr. treated me like an idiot because I hadn't given her tyenol. He even asked why I hadn't and I said because on the box it says to contact a physician. He told me that the doses were so mild to not even worry about it.

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Odd, my pediatrician recommended giving my son benedryl on a flight when he was an infant -to keep him calm and maybe asleep the whole time so traveling would be easier. I didn't do it b/c I don't like using any type of meds for little to no reason. I just scheduled flights around his usual nap time and he would fall asleep anyway...but I had a neighbor once who joked about giving her kids zyrtec every night so they would sleep until morning and not waker her up at night...and at times when all my buttons have been pushed I give myself a time out for a few minutes so I can collect myself and approach things better...

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This is a two fold problem. First the lack of good parently skills and doctors who over prescribe these medications. Today's parents find that it's easier to have a child "Pop" a pill to make them behave than to "Calm" down. Parents are more concerned about their child loving them or being thier "Best Friend" than being a parent. Today's parents find it easier to ask for medications than taking the time to be a parent. The doctor's are primarily concerned about thier bottom line and losing a patient who they refuse these medications to, then turn around and prescribe the medications the parent requested rather than saying no. Parents need to learn to say "NO!!!" more often than they do. And Yes, there are a small per centage of children who require medications for behavioral issue, but far fewer than are being medicated by parents who don't take the time to simply say NO or place the misbehaving child in thier room for a time out.

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Shut the little bastards up. Pains in the asses, all of them.

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I see this coming. It is right around the corner. Some woman some where soon will be charged with child abuse for giving birth.

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When my daughter was young her doctor actually told me to give her benadryl to get her to sleep at night. She was averaging 5 hours of sleep a night and that was not good for her or us. She had neurological issues and did not respond well to most medication (not to the benadryl either as it turned out) so that was what he suggested. In the 80's and 90's it was pretty common for doctors to prescribe benadryl for sleeping problems in children. So was I abusive because I did what the doctor suggested?

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The absence of properly applied corporal punishment leaves a child without inhibitions toward normal but unacceptable behavior. So, modern psychologists have created a world where drugs are considered acceptable to stop a kid from screaming at the top of his lungs, but swatting his butt a couple of times is not. To enforce this ideology, they distort the discussion and pretend that all children are always traumatized by any form of punishment. This is impossible to prove emperically, but they drown out any naysayers with knee-jerk ad hominem accusations such as that which some of you will aim at this post. Accusations of abuse run wild when anyone suggests that aversive control can be used to moderate behavior in place of drugs and is, in fact, the natural way that humans have controlled unacceptable behavior since the dawn of man. So, you get what you wanted - a world without unpleasant consequences for horrible behavior. Now you have to live with drug-fogged kids revert to terrible behavior the minute you remove the drugs. Spare the rod, drug the child. How nice of you.

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For the Mother who child gets blood transfusions-
do not worry about the benadryl. all blood tranfusion patients get benadryl, even the adults. It is used for allergic reactions to the blood.

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cmom issn,t it a given not only the parents but schools do it to its every one excuse to have happy little kids hey lets try drugs instead of talking to a child they drug them!!!! how about listen help them understand some times they may be right but some times wrong issn,t that what real parents do every one wants the easy way out

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wow i hope you never have children !!! thats how things get out of hand a parent being lazy not trying to teach their child right from wrong ill agree if their is a pyical problem it should be cheacked out but putting children on drungs because a lazy parent cain,t deal wit taken care ot them then do not have them you should be fixxed like a dog!!!! if their bastards quess what if they are yours you make them out to be help them nothing else thats waht parents do ,, its not beating or drugs its not only talking but listening to every one has problems most we have from our parents mistakes or some one elses a child doessn,t know any better untill they are taught !!! dumbass

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WOW! We went from medicating a child with over the counter medication to killing a child to treatment of ADHD to even diagnosing ADHD. And not one person is qualified to speak on any of these subjects. THAT is the problem! Educate yourself and seek advise from qualified persons and those who have been in your situation. Unfortunately, too many people think they are qualified to speak on ADHD, and they do not even understand what ADHD actually is. It is a medical condition that can be found in the brain activity. There are many more signs that must be visible to diagnose ADHD; it is NOT just an active or "hyper" child. It can be controlled but not cured, just as with many other conditions or illnesses. And there is no blanket treatment plan. Each person must personalize their treatment plan for themselves. Find the right people and the right help to make it through this very trying time raising a very difficult child.

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I have heard of this before as well. I remember a few women saying that they have given children Nyquil and such to make children fall asleep. I actually remember my middle school librarian talking about giving it to her niece when she was babysitting her one time. This is child abuse, and if I ever hear about it being done or see it being done, I will report it.

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I think of little Kaylee Anthony and Haleigh Cummings, both drugged by their slut of a mother/babysitter so they could go out and party, and now they're both dead. I've got real mixed feelings about this....

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What's a "psyhotic"?

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